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Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

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Learning to program taps into neural machinery you already use for logic. Brain scans show that after a beginner course, reading code lights up those problem solving regions. Even before any training, ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

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Georgetown University released its updated student code of conduct for this academic year, detailing a revised citation process for residential living violations and an expanded definition of student ...

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Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

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The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

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